I love you SoulFest 06.
Yes, this week was so much fun. Well, except for maybe the bugs and port-a-potties. At least showering in a lake was fun, if not gross.
Anyway, first of all, some quotes from the past week:
"I want to adopt a penguin. I need a new mattress. And a boyfriend. I should build a Harem." ~ Emily and I found this online on the IKEA website at her house...
"Up here in the clouds I feel like a carebear" ~ Guy from Downhere on the Mountain Top Stage
"If you fell here you wouldn't die. You might break your legs. Or be paralyzed. Ok, now here you would die." ~ On the ski lift
{Insert random things being shouted by people going the opposite way on the ski lift}
"Penguins or Salsa?" {Apparently the random question from one of our groups"
Answering every question with Penguins. A funny one was when someone asked us "Yankees or Red Sox" and then they thought the penguins were a team.
More things shouted at us on the ski lift: "Lucky Girl!" When I was riding with Dan, Derek, and Blin, and then there were the girls who wanted to date them even though the girls were 14 (and looked about 12)
"Rock stars need bologna" ~ Me coming back from the Jars of Clay oncore and being tired and mis-singing lyrics
"Rockstars need money. They can't live on bologna sandwiches." ~Downhere (a band)
"When the toast is burned and all the milk has turned and captain crunch is waving farewell. When the big one finds you may this song remind you that they don't serve breakfast in Hell." ~ Newsboys (a band)
Anna can poop out of her bellybutton apparently (or she was wearing Emily's sweatshirt and it had chocolate pudding stains in the belly button area...whatever you want to believe)
And apparently Blin wants to be able to pee out of his bellybutton. I was trying to sleep through that convo and it didn't work.
So, what is SoulFest might you ask? It's 5 days of camping out at the Gunstock Ski Resort in Gilford, New Hampshire. We got there Wednesday afternoon and left this morning. There are 6 different stages (approx?) and there are bands playing basically all day. There's even a ski lift to the mountain top stage.
I saw these bands/artists:
Audio Adrenaline, Downhere, Newsboys, Jars of Clay, Mercy Me, Chris Tomlin, Phoebee (something or other...she was 16), Christopher Williams, Third Day, Bethany Dillon...and there were more, but those were the ones I saw. There were other people there like Pillar, Last Tuesday, John Rueben, but those were the only people I went to see. Actually, John Reuben played while Emily, Anna, and I were going up the chairlift to see Bethany Dillon on the mountain top and you could still hear him all the way at the top...yeah...
I feel bad for the lead singer of Audio A. His voice is shot. It was amusing at the concert that almost no one knew the motions to Big House...or at least no one was doing them. I learned it at CHIC2K3 and then everyone was doing them.
I thought Friday was going to be the best day, but I was wrong. Friday was Jars of Clay and Mercy Me. The bass guitar was turned up too loud though and it distorted the sound. I did like the Jars of Clay concert, but the encore was better because you could understand what was going on, even if I knew less songs. For Mercy Me the only song I knew was "I can only imagine" which they played last of course.
Then last night was Chris Tomlin and Third Day. Chris Tomlin was amazing. It was set up like a worship service. The words were on a screen (that almost no one could see if you were standing in front of the stage instead of sitting on the hill) and it was just so amazing to have everyone into it that much. Then for Third Day we sat up pretty high on the hill. Geoff and Blin were in chairs and the rest of us were in the grass or on a blanket. A bunch of people left and the rest of us ended up laying down on each other...half because were were tired and the rest possibly to keep warm.
Actually, the end of the concert made me cry. The lead singer of Third Day was talking about how sometimes things happen in our lives and we can't control it, but we need to give it up to God, or in some cases where it will never go away, we need to have him help us carry it. I broke down and started crying during that and during the song afterwards (If any of you know what it was called, could you let me know?). I feel like I'm just pushing myself day to day after this past April and I keep shoving my thoughts to the back of my mind. At the same time I feel like I can't talk to anyone because most people don't understand and the ones who do, well, I feel bad bringing up old memories. Emily and I had a long talk about that though. Thanks Emily. =D
I think this is the first time for most of the summer that I actually don't want to go back to college at all. I mean, sure, I miss people, but I feel like I've gotten so close to my church friends up here too. Emily and I had a long talk when we walked down the mountain (very...very steep) instead of taking the lift. And then everyone else is going to college in a couple weeks. Derek, Hannah, Kari, Dan, Blin...they're all going to North Park. And there are more who are going to college or in Anna's case, who knows where. I'm just going to miss everyone so much. At the same time though, I don't think I regret not going to North Park. I think that if I knew people were going to be coming out there that I knew, I wouldn't have tried to reach out to make friends with people as hard as I did at Roanoke.
Yeah...so pictures will be up as soon as I get my laptop back. CompUSA is starting to anger me.
If people want to hang out, CALL ME. I have rehersal for the revue Tuesday night, a movie night at Anna's on Wednesday, and the Revue is Friday and Saturday. I'll have more info on that ASAP.
The end?
Anyway, first of all, some quotes from the past week:
"I want to adopt a penguin. I need a new mattress. And a boyfriend. I should build a Harem." ~ Emily and I found this online on the IKEA website at her house...
"Up here in the clouds I feel like a carebear" ~ Guy from Downhere on the Mountain Top Stage
"If you fell here you wouldn't die. You might break your legs. Or be paralyzed. Ok, now here you would die." ~ On the ski lift
{Insert random things being shouted by people going the opposite way on the ski lift}
"Penguins or Salsa?" {Apparently the random question from one of our groups"
Answering every question with Penguins. A funny one was when someone asked us "Yankees or Red Sox" and then they thought the penguins were a team.
More things shouted at us on the ski lift: "Lucky Girl!" When I was riding with Dan, Derek, and Blin, and then there were the girls who wanted to date them even though the girls were 14 (and looked about 12)
"Rock stars need bologna" ~ Me coming back from the Jars of Clay oncore and being tired and mis-singing lyrics
"Rockstars need money. They can't live on bologna sandwiches." ~Downhere (a band)
"When the toast is burned and all the milk has turned and captain crunch is waving farewell. When the big one finds you may this song remind you that they don't serve breakfast in Hell." ~ Newsboys (a band)
Anna can poop out of her bellybutton apparently (or she was wearing Emily's sweatshirt and it had chocolate pudding stains in the belly button area...whatever you want to believe)
And apparently Blin wants to be able to pee out of his bellybutton. I was trying to sleep through that convo and it didn't work.
So, what is SoulFest might you ask? It's 5 days of camping out at the Gunstock Ski Resort in Gilford, New Hampshire. We got there Wednesday afternoon and left this morning. There are 6 different stages (approx?) and there are bands playing basically all day. There's even a ski lift to the mountain top stage.
I saw these bands/artists:
Audio Adrenaline, Downhere, Newsboys, Jars of Clay, Mercy Me, Chris Tomlin, Phoebee (something or other...she was 16), Christopher Williams, Third Day, Bethany Dillon...and there were more, but those were the ones I saw. There were other people there like Pillar, Last Tuesday, John Rueben, but those were the only people I went to see. Actually, John Reuben played while Emily, Anna, and I were going up the chairlift to see Bethany Dillon on the mountain top and you could still hear him all the way at the top...yeah...
I feel bad for the lead singer of Audio A. His voice is shot. It was amusing at the concert that almost no one knew the motions to Big House...or at least no one was doing them. I learned it at CHIC2K3 and then everyone was doing them.
I thought Friday was going to be the best day, but I was wrong. Friday was Jars of Clay and Mercy Me. The bass guitar was turned up too loud though and it distorted the sound. I did like the Jars of Clay concert, but the encore was better because you could understand what was going on, even if I knew less songs. For Mercy Me the only song I knew was "I can only imagine" which they played last of course.
Then last night was Chris Tomlin and Third Day. Chris Tomlin was amazing. It was set up like a worship service. The words were on a screen (that almost no one could see if you were standing in front of the stage instead of sitting on the hill) and it was just so amazing to have everyone into it that much. Then for Third Day we sat up pretty high on the hill. Geoff and Blin were in chairs and the rest of us were in the grass or on a blanket. A bunch of people left and the rest of us ended up laying down on each other...half because were were tired and the rest possibly to keep warm.
Actually, the end of the concert made me cry. The lead singer of Third Day was talking about how sometimes things happen in our lives and we can't control it, but we need to give it up to God, or in some cases where it will never go away, we need to have him help us carry it. I broke down and started crying during that and during the song afterwards (If any of you know what it was called, could you let me know?). I feel like I'm just pushing myself day to day after this past April and I keep shoving my thoughts to the back of my mind. At the same time I feel like I can't talk to anyone because most people don't understand and the ones who do, well, I feel bad bringing up old memories. Emily and I had a long talk about that though. Thanks Emily. =D
I think this is the first time for most of the summer that I actually don't want to go back to college at all. I mean, sure, I miss people, but I feel like I've gotten so close to my church friends up here too. Emily and I had a long talk when we walked down the mountain (very...very steep) instead of taking the lift. And then everyone else is going to college in a couple weeks. Derek, Hannah, Kari, Dan, Blin...they're all going to North Park. And there are more who are going to college or in Anna's case, who knows where. I'm just going to miss everyone so much. At the same time though, I don't think I regret not going to North Park. I think that if I knew people were going to be coming out there that I knew, I wouldn't have tried to reach out to make friends with people as hard as I did at Roanoke.
Yeah...so pictures will be up as soon as I get my laptop back. CompUSA is starting to anger me.
If people want to hang out, CALL ME. I have rehersal for the revue Tuesday night, a movie night at Anna's on Wednesday, and the Revue is Friday and Saturday. I'll have more info on that ASAP.
The end?